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Economists versus Technocrats – who wins?

In the current financial downturn, much pressure has been on the government (here in Norway, and I bet elsewhere too) to initiate public works projects or other public investment projects in order to create or save jobs.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Supply Chain Risk Management Research
What are the current gaps that waiting to be closed in supply chain risk management research? Here i[...]
Supply Chain Confidence
Did a 2001 white paper turn into a 2004 academic journal article just like that? In Mitigating suppl[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Security and continuity of supply
Aah...the intricacies of the English language. Not supply (chain) security, but the security of supp[...]
Book Review:Managing Risks in Supply Chains
To make up for yesterday's perhaps overly harsh critique of just one article from this book, this is[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
How New Zealand develops resilient organisations
Is New Zealand better prepared for a disaster than other countries? As our infrastructure and organi[...]
28 Global Risks in 2015
The  World Economic Forum Global Risks Reports. I first came across them in 2008, when the hyperopti[...]
from HERE and THERE
The IRM Risk Management Standard
The Institute of Risk Management (IRM) is risk management's leading international professional educa[...]
Resilience as a job description
Ever since I started to work for the Southern Region office of the Norwegian Public Roads Administra[...]